• Question: have you developed any formulae to kill whiteflies, if so what do they do?

    Asked by 229epdj28 to Kevin, Liz, Beccy, Rosie on 13 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by Katie.
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      I think this is Beccy’s area of expertise!

    • Photo: Rosie Fok

      Rosie Fok answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      No.

      Over to Beccy.

    • Photo: Rebecca Corkill

      Rebecca Corkill answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      Yeah that is me 😀
      At the moment we are just trying to understand the basics of the whitefly. The more we understand the easier it is to control them. So I am currently working on how to genetically control them, so I am not looking into chemicals. This means I am looking at genes that are fundamental to the insects and what effect they have if we knock them out.

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